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- 12 Apr 2022, 09:29
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8470
- Views: 2143093
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
10th April write up on Poland’s AH140PL Frigate by Naval News, of interest mentions 7,000t ship, RN quotes the T31 OPV as 5,600t :roll:, re the image as posted above shows other highlights, four panel SM-400 GaN AESA S-band VSR with NS50 GaN X-band rotating MFCR on top plus mention of a sonar, 16 R...
- 12 Apr 2022, 06:49
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
- Replies: 2802
- Views: 715148
Re: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
I just wish there was at least one "Light bulb" moment in Main Building, where someone actually realises that the Boxer Infantry Carrier needs more than a .50cal, especially seeing how many vehicles have been knocked out by auto cannon in Ukraine and the Boxer as it stands will be lacking...
- 09 Apr 2022, 13:17
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
- Replies: 2802
- Views: 715148
- 22 Mar 2022, 15:24
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 555219
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
I think it demonstrates how having an inadequate maintenance & upgrade budget can affect refit timetables, more than hull numbers.
..If the money was there, all the T45s could have been fixed by now.
- 15 Mar 2022, 15:13
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: German Armed Forces
- Replies: 593
- Views: 42402
Re: German Armed Forces
But the was because Germany was separated with the Soviet Union controlling east Germany and half of Berlin. While it may happen you would think you’d be looking a concentrations in Russia as there primary targets these days. Nukes wouldn't have been dropped immediately, only if/when they overran c...
- 15 Mar 2022, 15:01
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: German Armed Forces
- Replies: 593
- Views: 42402
Re: German Armed Forces
It was accepted that (tactical) Nukes could well be dropped on Germany to halt Warsaw Pact forces during Soviet times.
Poland is the new frontline, so could well suffer a similar fate.
- 13 Mar 2022, 06:48
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2804
- Views: 764115
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Ha-ha.
Lots & lots of salty replies from the Frogs in the articles comments section.
FWIW, I think the chances of any deal is remote, but if the thought of one, winds up a bunch of Frenchies for months on end at the thought of it, alls good
Lots & lots of salty replies from the Frogs in the articles comments section.
FWIW, I think the chances of any deal is remote, but if the thought of one, winds up a bunch of Frenchies for months on end at the thought of it, alls good
- 05 Mar 2022, 06:51
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 951243
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Perhaps Dassault now think that with the increases in the French defence budget that Macron has announced, they may no longer need German money to finance the project.
- 24 Feb 2022, 10:00
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1163
- Views: 85659
Re: The war in Ukraine
Blah,blah...blah fucking blah. Meanwhile Putin pisses himself laughing, wondering how the Soviet Union ever fell to such a bunch of limp wristed Western sissies. The only thing he understands is bombs & bullets and until they start coming his way, he'll continue as he pleases. ..and in the backg...
- 22 Feb 2022, 11:37
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5461
- Views: 1465118
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Especially if at some point the Navy decides to fill some of the T-26s VLS with a SAM similar to the SM-6. This means they do not need a T-45/83 along to provide long range AAW. If the Royal Navy push for a Rolls Royce design for the T-83, they better have a very good argument for the Treasury or t...
- 20 Feb 2022, 11:32
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5461
- Views: 1465118
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
A good indication of where the Type 83 needs to be goingwargame_insomniac wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 00:09 In displacement T26 = 8,000+t full load vs 4,900t for T23. Almost two thirds again bigger!!
Or about 17m extra length.
.I'd be amazed if they're not in 10,000t range
- 16 Feb 2022, 14:24
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8470
- Views: 2143093
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Doesn't matter.
The Separatist scum have already written off shipbuilding in Scotland as an acceptable sacrifice...For others to make on their behalf.
The Separatist scum have already written off shipbuilding in Scotland as an acceptable sacrifice...For others to make on their behalf.
- 14 Feb 2022, 14:19
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49457
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Blackhawks should be disqualified from the competition on the grounds that they're just so FUGLY compared to its rivals
- 10 Feb 2022, 12:02
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Section Infantry Weapons
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 432292
Re: Section Infantry Weapons
The US adopting a Bullpup as the standard issue weapons platform, Sorry but..
...HA! that'll be the day.
...HA! that'll be the day.
- 10 Feb 2022, 11:00
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 555219
- 10 Feb 2022, 06:24
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 555219
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
When their time is done, these T-45s will be looked back on as a complete lemons, IMO. ..they will have spent far too much time in dry dock having their defects corrected, to be regarded as anything but. Even if they have all their problems fixed, by the time the last one is in the water in a fit an...
- 29 Jan 2022, 07:13
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 951243
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
:clap: :clap: :clap: True groundhog day, now Italian industry industry is openly yearning for an opportunity to hitch themselves to FCAS whichever way they can, basically treating Tempest as a means to that end and maybe to retain some RnD capabilities in the meantime. Meanwhile transatlantic media...
- 27 Jan 2022, 11:49
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 951243
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
No.
As long as France keeps up the 'its our way or the highway' attitude, and lets be honest, they simply don't know how to act any other way, the UK won't touch a joint project with a 10ft pole.
- 27 Jan 2022, 11:47
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Franco-German-Spanish FCAS/SCAF Programme News and Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4681
Re: Franco-German-Spanish FCAS/SCAF Programme News and Discussion
Spain must be looking on in bemusement, wondering why they ever got involved...No one in Paris or Berlin seems to ask their opinion about anything.
- 21 Jan 2022, 09:54
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Phalanx
- Replies: 104
- Views: 34772
Re: Phalanx
They've never really been anything other than that
- 19 Jan 2022, 15:15
- Forum: Political Discussions
- Topic: Biased Brainwashing Corporation (BBC)
- Replies: 93
- Views: 9165
Re: Biased Brainwashing Corporation (BBC)
It was never Labour's position that they would stop Brexit. Shadow Home Secretary is Yvette Cooper. No, it was just their policy to basically bend over and it take up the arse, from whatever the Brussels Euro Trash demanded, I.e still taking orders from the ECJ and sticking with just about every ot...
- 01 Jan 2022, 13:15
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 951243
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
First of: The cognitive dissonance to say/type "...EU(..) in violation of the treaty..." regarding the UK really is mindblowing stuff. Even if it were true, it would be a completely proportionate and appropriate reaction to the UK's attempted revisionism. But of course it's probably not a...
- 24 Nov 2021, 13:33
- Forum: Political Discussions
- Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
- Replies: 4600
- Views: 117547
Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Good for the UK. Could have been much better without this nonsense. So actually yeah, sovereignty is an issue for me, just the opposite of your primative neanderthal thinking. You seem really invested in this: Do you feel somehow compelled to go on a crusade to rescue the UK from our poor decisions...
- 17 Nov 2021, 08:52
- Forum: Political Discussions
- Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
- Replies: 4600
- Views: 117547
Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Ok but we're not European, UK is. You're North American, Canadians are also North Americans. Mexicans are Central Americans, Brazilian's are South Americans. You're all Americans, in the same way we are all Europeans. Let me know if you'd accept a Canadian or Brazilian court banning gun ownership i...
- 03 Nov 2021, 08:06
- Forum: Personnel and Units
- Topic: Royal Marines
- Replies: 205
- Views: 34157
Re: Royal Marines
https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1455637159453601797 I hate journalistic puff pieces like this. They always invariably don't stand up to close scrutiny and will be resented by the allies in question because the details of this exercise will almost have certainly been leaked by someone in t...